Prison Film
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    Movies

    The Longest Yard (2005)

    At a Texas penitentiary, jailed NFL veterans (Adam Sandler, Burt Reynolds) train their fellow...

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    Movies

    The Ceremony (1963)

    An innocent man awaits execution in a Tangier prison for a murder he did not commit, until his...

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    Movies

    Death Warrant (1990)

    An undercover officer (Jean-Claude Van Damme) investigates murder and mayhem in a prison where...

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    Movies

    Out of Sight (1998)

    The mutual attraction between a federal marshal (Jennifer Lopez) and an escaped convict (George...

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    Movies

    Dante 01

    Set in the future, where criminals are packed off to outer space, recounts the mishaps of six...

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    Movies

    Carandiru (2004)

    A doctor (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) listens to inmates' stories as he tests them for HIV in a...

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    Movies

    Caged Fury (1990)

    A young woman from a small rural town is framed for sexual crimes in Hollywood.

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    Movies

    Let's Go To Prison (2006)

    After learning that the son (Will Arnett) of the judge who put him away is in jail, an ex-con (Dax...

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    Movies

    Brokedown Palace (1999)

    American teens (Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale) in Bangkok are framed for smuggling drugs and...

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    Movies

    Jailhouse Rock (1957)

    An inmate (Elvis Presley) learns guitar from his cellmate (Mickey Shaughnessy), then gets an agent...

  • I Want to Live! picture
    Movies

    I Want to Live! (1958)

    Convicted of murder, drug-addicted shill and prostitute Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) lands on...

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    Movies

    99 Women

    Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film, though both stereotypical and rare to find in its original...

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    Movies

    Isle of Missing Men

    By Monogram standards, the cast of Isle of Missing Men was Academy Award calibre. John Howard and...

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    Movies

    Chattahoochee (1990)

    A disturbed Korean War hero (Gary Oldman) is placed in a barbaric Florida hospital for the...

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    Movies

    Civil Brand (2003)

    Wrongly convicted for murder, a woman leads abused female inmates (N'Bushe Wright, Monica Calhoun)...

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    Movies

    Black Mama, White Mama (1973)

    A hooker (Pam Grier) and a radical (Margaret Markov) escape from a brutal Philippine prison, chained...

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    Movies

    Chicago (2002)

    A lawyer (Richard Gere) handles the cases of two murderous women (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée...

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    Movies

    Club Fed (1990)

    The right-wing warden of a prison that caters to the rich and famous sets out to discredit...

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    Movies

    Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

    Murderer Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) spends decades in solitary confinement studying birds and...

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    Movies

    The United States of Leland (2004)

    A teacher (Don Cheadle) at a juvenile correctional facility tries to determine what drove a teen...

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    Movies

    Cool Hand Luke (1967)

    A likable Southern loner (Paul Newman) on a chain gang resists the captain and keeps trying to...

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    Movies

    Dead Man Walking (1988)

    Futuristic tale of a bounty hunter following a trail of ambush and murder in his pursuit of a...

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    Movies

    Undisputed (2002)

    A gangster (Peter Falk) arranges a boxing match between the heavyweight champion (Ving Rhames),...

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    Movies

    Last Dance (1996)

    A clemency-board rookie (Rob Morrow) takes interest in the case of a woman (Sharon Stone) on death...

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    Movies

    1,000 Convicts and a Woman

    1,000 Convicts and a Woman was the lurid alternate title to the British skinflick Fun and Games....

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    Movies

    Condemned (1929)

    Ronald Colman's second talking picture, Condemned is a snail's-pace melodrama set on a Devil's...

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    Movies

    Cadence (1991)

    A misfit soldier (Charlie Sheen) lands in a bully's (Martin Sheen) stockade with five men united by...

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    Movies

    Life (1999)

    Wrongly convicted of murder, two men (Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence) become close friends during...

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    People

    Christiane Schmidtmer

    Christiane Schmidtmer appeared in movies such as The Giant Spider Invasion, I Deal in Danger, and...

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    People

    Walter Doniger

    A scriptwriter by the early '40s, Walter Doniger wrote films for such directors as William Dieterle...